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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
Cc: 58270@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#58270: 29.0.50; vc-tor/TRAMP issue
Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2022 19:12:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r0zo6dbd.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pmf9gkf9.fsf@posteo.net> (Philip Kaludercic's message of "Mon,  03 Oct 2022 12:29:14 +0000")

Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:

> but then a user could be deceived into thinking that VC is using tor
> even if it actually isn't the case.  Perhaps adding a warning would be
> enough?  Or could vc-tor be given an option to only activate if
> possible?

I think signalling an error here would be appropriate.

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> I also have the interesting case that I was accessing a file version
>> controlled under RCS, so no network communication was going to be
>> necessary in the first place.
>
> That's a separate problem, I think: we shouldn't use torsocks for
> VCSes that are always local, like RCS and SRC.

Indeed.  So I think this entire torsocks thing is on the wrong level
altogether -- it should be pushed down into the backends instead of
being in vc-dispatcher.el.









      parent reply	other threads:[~2022-10-03 17:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-03 12:29 bug#58270: 29.0.50; vc-tor/TRAMP issue Philip Kaludercic
2022-10-03 17:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-03 17:12 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]

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